Schools Should Have ‘No Idling Zones’, Public Health England Chief Says
The title of this post is the same as that of this article on the BBC.
These are the first three paragraphs of the article.
Public health chiefs have proposed a ban on cars idling outside school gates in a bid to cut air pollution.
The measure is among a series of UK-wide recommendations put forward by Public Health England.
PHE medical director Paul Cosford told the BBC: “We should stop idling outside schools and we should make sure that children can walk or cycle to school.”
The article also lists other measures.
- Redesigning cities so people aren’t so close to highly polluting roads by, for example, designing wider streets or using hedges to screen against pollutants
- Investing more in clean public transport as well as foot and cycle paths
- Encouraging uptake of low emission vehicles by setting more ambitious targets for installing electric car charging points
- Discouraging highly polluting vehicles from entering populated areas with incentives such as low emission or clean air zones
All motherhood and apple pie, but it will be a vote loser for any Government, that tries to i9mplement it.
How about children over 8 walking or taking a bus to school as we did
Comment by John Wright | March 11, 2019 |
I don’t know what percentage do that where you live, but most seem to at the two State schools in my road. Although they don’t at the Private one!
Comment by AnonW | March 11, 2019 |